The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web. Sundays are for trying to work out why your feet don’t work. I wore too-tight shoes during a house move a few months ago, and now if I walk for too long I get pain under my third and fourth toes. Fortunately, I don’t read with my feet. Here are some internet worderings that caught my attention this week....
The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for hoping the plumber has ordered that new sink part in. My sink is ‘non-standard’ apparently. “Why can’t I just be normal?!” I scream in silent longing. Armitage Shanks would never. Before I look forward to no longer having to wash up my pasta bowl in the same place I brush my teeth, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!...
The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for creating a solution to deal with fungal gnats. Let’s mix and pour as we read the week’s best writing about games and game-related things. For The Guardian, Ellie Gibson wrote about a developer who earned over £250k from games made in just 30 minutes . Gibson chats with TJ Gardner who makes “Stroke” games, where you pet animals X number of times to earn trophies....
The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for more cat. She’s flop and headbutt-level comfortable around me now, but she still seems a bit terrified of my house in general. I’m going to hang out with her a bunch and see if I can instill some sort of object permanence re: my presence in the home. Before that, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!)...
The trick to Dragon Age’s lore is that the lore is lying, says original “uber-plot” writer David Gaider But does Veilguard get us closer to a final answer? Image credit:EA Part of the fun of Dragon Age ’s fantasy is that it’s inconsistent - or at least, inconsistent by the standards of fantasy RPGs , which often break down into a million neatly organised and interlocking codex entries. It all rides on who you speak to....
This week in PC games: Marvel beat ’em ups, Nightdive shooter revivals and a festive selection of horror games What we’re feeding the Maw Image credit:Dotemu / Gamirror Games November is…done! The tawdry moveable feast that is Videogaming shudders and rolls beyond the canopy, out into the whitening dunes and fathoms of December. Now for revelry! Strike your trumpets! Blow your drums! Possibly the other way round! The folk of game development exit their wagons and sprint weeping amongst the dissipating trees....
Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure is a free demo of 2D crafting and spider fights Necesse-ry Image credit:HypeTrain Digital I spend a portion of my every week surviving and crafting. And in the game , where the game is called Minecraft. I still have appetite left for Tinkerlands : A Shipwrecked Adventure, a demo that offers topdown, 2D construction and fights with giant frog bosses, among others. The free prologue is available to download from Steam ....
TopSpin 2K25 will launch in April with pros past and present, including Serena Williams And Andre Agassi Image credit:2K Games TopSpin 2k25 was announced in January , the first entry in the tennis series since 2011. It turns out there’s not long to wait before it’s served up either, as it now has a release date of April 26th. The original announcement was only paired with a wee teaser trailer, so here’s the full and proper “announcement trailer”:...
UnderMine 2 is the cave delving sequel to Thorium’s action roguelike It’s got bomb tennis and gigantism potions Image credit:Thorium Action roguelike UnderMine is getting a numbered sequel. That number is two. The follow-up to 2020’s action roguelike is UnderMine 2 . It was announced today as part of the Triple-i Initiative, which is a silly name that I’m writing with the correct stylisation out of respect to UnderMine 2’s slimes....
Until Dawn devs Supermassive lay off “up to 36” workers, delay interstellar horror Directive 8020 Little Nightmares 3’s development unaffected by cuts Image credit:Supermassive Games Supermassive Games , best known for developing the likes of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, have announced they’ve begun the consultation process for a round of redundancies that’ll affect “up to 36” staff. As part of this, sci-fi horror game Directive 8020 has had its release delayed to early next year....
V Rising’s first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month And a stable for your horses! Image credit:Stunlock Studios It’s coming up to a year since V Rising received its 1.0 release, and ahead of that anniversary developer Stunlock Studios shared a trailer earlier this week for the game’s first big update, Invaders of Oakveil. The update itself will be free (nice!...
VVVVVV and Super Hexagon’s Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully cracked platformer about eggs Can I offer you a nice indie game in this trying time Image credit:Terry Cavanagh Once upon a time, the great graven cave troll Terry Cavanagh rose from his slumbers, scratched the opals from his beard of woven copper, and said to himself: “Today I will make a 3D egg platform game in which a 3D egg goes platforming, like my hit game VVVVVV , but 3D and with eggs....
Warner Bros. did a Coyote Vs. Acme on Small Radios Big Televisions, so the dev has made it free to download Digital preservation thoughts Image credit:Adult Swim Games In further confirmation that one can never truly own digital media, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to “retire” 2016’s noodling around puzzle game Small Radios Big Televisions - meaning it’ll disappear off storefronts in the next 60 days. Developer Owen Deery revealed this news on Xitter a couple of days ago, simultaneously announcing that the game is now free to download ....
Wayfinder is ditching its free-to-play live-service model to become a paid, co-op RPG without microtransactions The update arrives in June Image credit:Airship Syndicate Wayfinder , currently a free-to-play RPG developed by Airship Syndicate, is undergoing a pretty drastic change in its upcoming Echoes patch. Right now it’s a live-service game with microtransactions, but soon it’ll continue as a paid co-op RPG with no in-game monetisation. And that’s alongside promised tweaks to how progression works, too....
Well toot my lizards, Void Bastards is rustling up a space-western sequel How did we miss Wild Bastards? Image credit:Blue Manchu/Maximum Entertainment ‘The Wild Bastards’ is about the best name I’ve heard for a gang of alien outlaws in a space-western, good enough that let’s skip past the fact that the game was announced last year and we’ve only just noticed. Wild Bastards is the follow-up to Void Bastards , 2019’s roguelikelike first-person shooter about a prisoner in a corporate nightmare forced to raid derelict spaceships on a wild goose chase....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Eugène Flandin/Old Book Illustrations It’s been a funny old week for us at RPS, but the games will continue. The games must continue. Or else, what was this all for? Brendan I’ve been quietly aching to play S.p.l.i.t , the creepy command-line interface game from the maker of Buckshot Roulette . If I can get that done, I’ll be happy....
What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1877 Greetings, friends. Do you have a moment to speak about our lord and saviour, the electric heat pad? My spine now resembles a splinter of charred wood, but oh, so worthwhile. It’s an absolute godsend as the days get brisker. My flatmate keeps telling me I shouldn’t keep the window wide open if I’m getting cold, but he doesn’t understand....
What’s on your bookshelf?: Time has no bearing here as we enter the space between the clock hands edition read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome to The Space Between The Days. Missed the streak? Missed it? Missed the weekly Sunday column? Missed my deadline because I bought a new matress yesterday and spent most of the day lounging, limbs akimbo like a petulant starfish making noises no starfish has or will ever make?...
Who knows if we’ll ever get another Hollow Knight, but if we do, you can expect it to be as standalone as Silksong “And if there were ever others, we would hope that they all follow that same pattern” Image credit:Team Cherry Let’s get something real clear here right off the bat: I couldn’t possibly tell you if Team Cherry are planning to make any more Hollow Knight games. That isn’t to say there isn’t more Hollow Knight on the way, as Silksong will be getting… something , at some point, in the future....
Wolcen: Lords Of Mayhem won’t receive new updates and its multiplayer will switch off in September Flexible action-RPG launched in 2020 It feels as if every action-RPG can be described in terms of its relationship to genre daddy Diablo. Wolcen:Lords Of Mayhem , for example, launched a few months after Diablo 4 was announced and helped to satiate some early click cravings. Briefly. Early positive sentiment was quickly scuppered by bugs, slow updates and more....
